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On record: Pop, rock and jazz, Jan 13

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Deeper and darker: Sharon Van Etten

The Sunday Times, January 13 2019, 12:01am

ALBUM OF THE WEEKSHARON VAN ETTENRemind Me TomorrowJagjaguwarIn the four years since she released Are We There, Van Etten has studied for a psychology degree, acted in two seasons of the Netflix series The OA, scored a film, fallen in love, become a mother — and written and recorded Remind Me Tomorrow. Which makes the title of her fifth album more than a good joke, especially when you learn that the hiatus was notionally set aside solely for the degree. As if such transformations weren’t enough, the New Jersey musician has also gone deeper and darker than before, embracing, with her co-producer John Congleton, vintage synthesizers, drum machines and gothic melodrama wholeheartedly, where previous releases only toyed with them.

The album’s greatest triumph is to…

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